It seems that Bernstein's Enigma Variations is timed at 39 minutes and 7 seconds. If my maths is correct, the version on my Naxos CD with George Hurst and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra takes 28 minutes and 59 seconds. Much of the furore at the time apparently centred on 'Nimrod'.
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostTelevisual bleeding chunks will be all we'll get. A fiver says it's Nimrod from the Enigma...
You follow up with streams or purchases...there are some marvellous new releases as I've said above, and Baiba Skride's Serenade (much praised by DG in Collection, along with Hahn and Ferschtman) is due soon...
But if you actually buy just one then - forget the value-for-money this time (oh, I agonised, don't worry) and grab the Zimerman/Berlin Phil/Rattle Age of Anxiety...a one-in-a-million instant classic of the Gramophone (And you know it is, at the very first piano entry.....)
You know the Lutosławski Piano Concerto from the same source, right? Course you do....
well,
it's even better than that...
(Snazzy artwork too )
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Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View PostEh? But it's a TV documentary an hour long.... rehearsals, interviews, music and film clips... what's the problem?"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostI quite agree! Was simply responding to a previous email about the playlist for the programme!
JLW, the Zimerman/Rattle Age Of AnXiety has been on my radar for a while so looking forward to the purchase."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View PostEh? But it's a TV documentary an hour long.... rehearsals, interviews, music and film clips... what's the problem?
You follow up with streams or purchases...there are some marvellous new releases as I've said above, and Baiba Skride's Serenade (much praised by DG in Collection, along with Hahn and Ferschtman) is due soon...
But if you actually buy just one then - forget the value-for-money this time (oh, I agonised, don't worry) and grab the Zimerman/Berlin Phil/Rattle Age of Anxiety...a one-in-a-million instant classic of the Gramophone (And you know it is, at the very first piano entry.....)
You know the Lutosławski Piano Concerto from the same source, right? Course you do....
well,
it's even better than that...
(Snazzy artwork too )
https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/be...jx9lnqacb#itemDon’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750
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I had R3 on from approx 8.30 to 10 this morning. I wasn’t counting but by my rough reckoning I have heard the name “Bernstein” some 200+ times and exactly the same trail 3 times
Even Mrs Bax who, one might say, doesn’t have such a delicately tuned year to the vagaries of R3 has just shouted out “Enough already!”
Click. Off.O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!
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Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View PostI had R3 on from approx 8.30 to 10 this morning. I wasn’t counting but by my rough reckoning I have heard the name “Bernstein” some 200+ times and exactly the same trail 3 times
Even Mrs Bax who, one might say, doesn’t have such a delicately tuned year to the vagaries of R3 has just shouted out “Enough already!”
Click. Off.
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Originally posted by Petrushka View PostIi's also been shown before and is actually a very good programme.
You remember clearly that this very programme has previously been on then, Pet?"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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